Countless LGBT+ people have gone missing in Syria since ISIS took control of certain regions.

The Human Rights Campaign have previously reported that men who are under suspicion of being homosexual are actively targeted on social media and lured into a trap of extreme violence.

Last year, a 15-year-old boy was murdered after being caught “in the house of an ISIS leader” and accused of being gay.

Iraqi forces continue to fight back against the terrorist group, and recently took the ISIS stronghold of Mosul from them.

Meanwhile, The Queer Insurrection and Liberation Army (TQILA) – pronounced ‘Tequila’ – is a division of the anarchist International Revolutionary People’s Guerrilla Forces (IRPGF), who are a relatively recently established fighting force in the north-east of Syria made up of LGBT+ soldiers.